In apnea for four hours. Rarely we will have seen in the theater such a concentration, such a unison between actors and the public, such a feeling of the essential. Transpose on stage the pelicot trial required to live up to a historic judicial moment. It is not possible to say that this was the case, Friday, July 18, in Avignon, during this unique evening offered by the Swiss director Milo Rau: Historical, this Pelicot trial It will also be for theatrical art, and will remain in the annals as an exemplary of what a theater of reality can be.
How to bring in four hours of representation a legal process which took place for almost four months, from September 2 to December 19, 2024, and deeply shaken French society, and far beyond? How to avoid any spectacularization, all sensationalism? Milo Rau and his playwright, a deceased servane, respond with unfailing rigor, and absolute confidence in the powers of the theater, which has parted with justice since its Greek origins.
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